Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 59

THE EAGLE and the Beetle were at enmity together, and they destroyed one another’s nests.

Who acts: EAGLE · What happens: be, destroy · To what, where: enmity, nests

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (EAGLE), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 EAGLE	det
2	EAGLE	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Beetle	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Beetle	det
5	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 EAGLE	conj
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 enmity	case
8	enmity	enmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	obl
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 were	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 destroyed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 destroyed	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 destroyed	nsubj
13	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 were	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 another	nummod
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 nests	det
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 another	case
17	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 destroyed	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the EAGLE and the Beetle			enmity		together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at enmity=Location
2	destroy	past	Eagle	another nests					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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